Matthew E. Bolton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English

Matthew Bolton teaches film, literature, and pop culture. His research in film adaptation develops a rhetorical approach to adaptation across media, recuperating fidelity as a theoretical and interpretive concept by considering the ways in which rhetorical...

Matthew Bolton teaches film, literature, and pop culture. His research in film adaptation develops a rhetorical approach to adaptation across media, recuperating fidelity as a theoretical and interpretive concept by considering the ways in which rhetorical effects like affect and ethics are translated from prose to film. His work on adaptation has appeared in Adaptation, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Diegesis, Miranda, and ImageText, and he is working on a book manuscript, A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptation: Effects, Purposes, and the Fidelity Debate.